When a girl marries she exchanges the attention of many men for the inattention of one.
-- Helen Rowland Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and
blows up the bonfire.
-- François de La Rouchefoucauld The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other
is ready.
-- Henry David Thoreau I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous G "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced." (André Gide) G
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
-- Typewriting exercise "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
-- Albert Einstein G Don't look back -- something might be gaining on you.
-- Satchel Paige In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
-- André Maurois The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
-- Lucille S. Harper G
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their
powers as a State depend.
-- Benjamin Disraeli My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
-- Vladimir Nabokov When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want,
and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
-- Fred Astaire "Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." (Aldous Huxley) "I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks." (Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, 1989) G "Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice." (Andreas Capellanus) We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
-- Aristotle G
Man is the only animal that blushes--or needs to.
-- Mark Twain He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West "Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong." (Oscar Wilde) In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the
next meal would come from.
-- Peter F. Drucker Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the
time by watching the second hand of a clock.
-- Ben Hecht G And gain is gain, however small.
-- Robert Browning It makes no difference who you vote for - the two parties are really one party representing four
percent of the people.
-- Gore Vidal Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts.
-- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth G
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
-- Virginia Woolf There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another
to the world.
-- Antonio Machado Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton "There cannot be a God because, if there were one, I would not believe that I was not He." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) May you never leave your marriage alive. G "Conform and be dull." (J. Frank Doble) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why.
-- Mignon McLaughlin The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. --Heidi Hartmann [The Unhappy G
Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo...
-- Anonymous blah bl "Less is more." (Robert Browning) Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a
madhouse.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one." (Chinese Proverb) Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30."
-- Anonymous G Journalism is merely history's first draft.
-- Geoffrey C. Ward "I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mou "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) G
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
- Sacha Guitry Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
-- Herbert Hoover Although the course may change sometimes, rivers always reach the sea.
-- Led Zeppelin, Ten Years Gone "For how can one know color in perpetual green, and what good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?" (John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley) Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
-- Grover Cleveland G The only one of your children who does not grow up and move away is your husband. blah bla "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." (Albert Einstein) A man can't get rich if he takes proper care of his family.
-- Navaho saying G
"Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly." (Mark McCormack) "How is it that we never have time to do a job right, but we always have time to do it over?" (Anonymous) A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous The better part of valor is discretion.
-- William Shakespeare 1564-1616 from King Henry the Fourth, Part I "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) G Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them
good.
-- H.L. Mencken A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.
-- Marvin Kitman "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) G
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
-- Gandhi We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not
know what to create.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
-- Steven Wright "Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored..." (Herman Melville, G "Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another, 'What?! You too! Thought I was the only one.'" (Clive Staples Lewis) "Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget." (G. Randolf) What do you take me for, an idiot?
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy G
"Think off-center." (George Carlin) A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-- James Reston There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say -- unless you insist on saying it.
-- Anonymous The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
- Charles de Gaulle The average Ph.D thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
-- Frank J. Dobie, A Texan in England, 1945 G The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth.
-- Niels Bohr It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal A university professor set an examination question in which he asked what is the difference
between ignorance and apathy. The professor had to give an A+ to a student who answered: I
don't know and G
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." (Anonymous) Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way
around the laws.
- Plato There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim
to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome.' You must be willing to fire.
-- Gen. George Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
-- Oscar Wilde G Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. President "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Reading computer manuals without the hardware is a frustrating as reading sex manuals without
the software.
-- Arthur C. Clarke G
